Cheyenne

Living in Kansas is unique because we had the Pawnee tribe to help limit the amount of wild bison we had and so we could learn about their culture. The Pawnee Nation The Pawnees lived on a reservation, which is land that belongs to them and is under their control. They have their own government, laws, police, and services. Language They mostly speak English, but most Pawnees, mostly elders speak Pawnee. Pawnee means “Nawah” which is a friendly greeting. (Lewis, 2015) Culture (Society, 2009)…

Did you know that Pawnee are known. for their beautiful hide paintings, pottery and woven baskets. And Pawnee was known for other stuff like there location. facts and traditions. They are a native American tribe. This is about Pawnees location. They had to hunt mostly Buffalo because that was the common food source for there area. The Pawnee could be found along the Platte river and the Republican river which is known as Nebraska. The Pawnee were forced to move to Oklahoma in 1800 and…

This map was drawn by Lieutenant Joseph Dixon, United States Topographical Engineers, under the direction of Captain G. Thom. It shows the routes traveled by the Command of Maj. E. Steen, U.S. War Department, in 1860 during campaign against Snake Indians. This survey map is a significant early depiction of of Eastern Oregon, bounded by three rivers, the Willamette, Columbia and Snake Rivers. This map is said to have its origin in Steen's Topographical Memoir of the Command Against the Snake…

Battle of the Wounded Knee The battle of the wounded knee occurred on December 29, 1890. When it occurred, it was near wounded knee creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the US state of South Dakota. Philip Wells Was a mixed-blood sioux who served as an interpreter for the army. He later recounted what he saw that Monday morning. Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. Just before the…

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee This movie is about a boy who is taken from his tribe. His father takes him from his tribe, because he wants him to be more educated and have a more safe life. The boys name is Ohiyesa, Ohiyesa goes to school to study to become a doctor. Ohiyesa later has to pick a white man's name so they do not know he came from a tribe. He chooses the name Charles Eastman. After he studies to become a doctor he is taken back to his tribe of the Sioux reservation, to help the…

Do you know what the name Hopi means. There are many interesting facts about the Hopi tribe like. That they do the rain dance and the snake dance. Plus they mostly live in Arizona. And the Hopi talked the Uto-Aztecan Men in the Hopi tribe wore headbands made out of leather and woman wore cotton dresses that are called mantas. The Hopi's colthing was made out of cotton how cool is that. The Hopi people talked the Uto-Azteca language. Some of the traditions the Hopi did where the rain…

book is called Girl Stolen, it was published in 2010 by New York Times Bestselling Author April Henry. Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder goes with her step mom to get her prescription for her antibiotics. Cheyenne waits in the car on her step mom while she goes inside to get it because it is December and Cheyenne doesn’t need to be in the cold with her pneumonia. While Cheyenne lays in the warm back seat of their escalade, a guy named Griffin is walking around the parking lot searching or an…

Many people aren’t brave and don’t know what to do in bad situations. Cheyenne is fearless, smart, and talented girl. Some people are completely opposite; usually a lot of people are! In this book the main character Cheyenne has qualities. These qualities of Cheyenne help her with her conflict by trying to get out of the situation, it was sneaky and I agree for what she did. Cheyenne is fearless by how she copes with the kidnapper/Griffin. She was tied with rope sitting on a chair and got a…

The Cheyenne Native American Dull Knife once said, “All we ask for is to live and live in peace” (332). The quote exemplifies the relationship between the Native Americans and the United States government. The Native Americans did not agree with the American settlers coming into their territory and using their beloved natural resources. As more policies were enacted and more settlers came into the unsettled territories inhabited by the Native Americans, the more likely a violent dispute…

There were also many atrocities committed during the massacres of the Arapaho and Cheyenne Indian tribes. The U.S. army felt that the Native Americans were inferior so they brutally hunted down innocent plains Indians like animals. Suspicion and hostility, stemming from technological and cultural differences as well as mutual feelings of superiority, destroyed relations between Native Americans and whites in North America. Distrust among the Indians, and nationalistic rivalries, bad faith, and…